Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Titas Ekti Nadir Naam ( Bengali : তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম ), Gold A River Called Titas , is a 1973 Bangladeshi film directed by Ritwik Ghatak . [1] [2] The movie was based on Adwaita Mallabarman . [3] The movie explores the life of the fishermen on the bank of the Titas River in Brahmanbaria , Bangladesh .

Rosy Samad, Mostafa Golam, Kabori , Prabir Mitra , and Roushan Jamil acted in the main roles. [4] The shooting of the movie took place on Ghatak’s health, as it was suffering from tuberculosis at the time.

In 2007, A River Called Titas topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films , as chosen in the audience and critics’ polls conducted by the British Film Institute . [6]

Plot

A fisherman, Kishore, marries a young girl accidentally when he visits a nearby village. After their wedding night, Kishore’s young bride is kidnapped on the river. We lose his wife, Kishore becomes mad. Meanwhile, his young bride with the bandits, jumps into the river and is saved by some villagers. Unfortunately, the bride knows nothing about her husband, she does not even know her husband’s name. The only thing she remembers is the name of the village Kishore belongs to. Ten years later, she tries to find Kishore with their son. Some residents of Kishore’s village refuse to share food with her and her because of threat of starvation. A young widow Basanthi helps the mother and child. Later Kishore and Basanthi were childhood lovers. Director Ghatak appears in the film as a boatman,[7]